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Demorest, Ellen Louise Curtis (1824–1898)| US fashion arbiter. A successful milliner, she invented mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns. She established a company to sell the patterns, which were adaptations of the latest French fashions, and a magazine to promote them. |
| She was born in Schuylerville, New York. Her dressmaking patterns made French styles available to ordinary women and greatly influenced US fashion. |
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